As world leaders and veterans meet in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of 6 June 1944 D-Day landings, the grandson of the woman whose weather forecast changed the timings of the massive military operation is in Co Mayo to remember her.
Maureen Sweeney forecast an impending storm from Blacksod station in 1944, which changed the timing of the D-Day landings and ultimately secured victory for the Allies.
The remote Blacksod lighthouse and coastguard station played a key role during World War II supplying Britain with weather reports. "The one in Blacksod was going to be closed down and some of the staff from Dublin had come to relocate equipment," he explained.
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